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IP Australia recently released a toolkit that details everything you need to know about engaging a patent attorney. Shelston IP directly assisted IP Australia with the preparation of the toolkit. As a result, Shelston IP’s client OzStar Therapeutics has been detailed in a case study on how patent attorneys and clients work together –

A New Zealand Government review concluded more than 16 months ago under which the facility to “daisy chain” divisionals from applications proceeding under the Patents Act 1953 was squarely under threat. Nothing of significance appears to have happened in the interim – at least publicly, and one assumes the Government (which, of course, changed following

Securing protection for your intellectual property in the South Pacific can often be both challenging and time-consuming. If registration is available (which is not always the case), the registration process varies from country to country and often involves a labyrinth of filing requirements, elderly legislation and “island time”, where an outwardly straightforward process may take

The “CPTPP”, otherwise known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is what remains of the “TPPA-11” (which was itself, what remained of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) Free Trade Agreement following the withdrawal of the United States). Last month, in Vietnam, the eleven remaining signatories resolved to push forward toward an agreement –

We previously reported on the 21 March 2017 decision of Burley J of the Federal Court of Australia in Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals v Samsung Bioepis AU Pty Ltd [2017] FCA 285, in which his Honour dismissed Pfizer’s application for preliminary discovery of documents relevant to determining whether a registered biosimilar product might infringe one or

Australia has relatively recently implemented support laws that require a specification to provide sufficient information to enable the skilled person to perform an invention over the entire scope of the claims without undue burden or the need for further invention. These new support laws have been stringently applied by the Patent Office, in particular in